Problem in displaying a URL with dash

[milanello72]

How could I display a URL with dash?
I have

href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$id_team.'/'.$name.'.html"

I want to transform calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus F.C. Torino.html in
calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus-F.C.-Torino.html

thank you!

[tempz]

Originally Posted by milanello72

How could I display a URL with dash?
I have

href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$id_team.'/'.$name.'.html"

I want to transform calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus F.C. Torino.html in
calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus-F.C.-Torino.html

thank you!

PHP Code:

$team = str_replace("%20", "-", $id_team); 


PHP Code:

href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$team.'/'.$name.'.html" 


But, if you want a bit more than that, and you probably do, if you are working with URLs, you should take a look at the urlencode() function.

PHP Code:

$team = urlencode($id_team) 


[milanello72]

thank you for your message!
I foun this function:

function seoUrl($string) {      
         //Strip any unwanted characters
         $string = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string);
         //Clean multiple dashes or whitespaces
         $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string);
         //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash
         $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string);
         return $string;
}

I have another problem!
In horizontalmenu.php I will have:

href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$id_team.'/'.$name.'.html"

where $name=seoUrl($name);
*********************************
But how will display teams.php in index.php?? I use

if (isset($_GET['pagina']) and $_GET['pagina'] == 'teams' and isset($_GET['id_team']) and isset($_GET['name']))
{
         include('./includes/teams.php');
}

but doesn't work because in menuhorizontal i used seoUrl.
I have this message: The requested URL /calcioitalia/teams/2/AC-Milan.php was not found on this server.
How could I solve this problem?

[tempz]

Originally Posted by milanello72

thank you for your message!
I foun this function:

function seoUrl($string) {      
         //Strip any unwanted characters
         $string = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string);
         //Clean multiple dashes or whitespaces
         $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string);
         //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash
         $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string);
         return $string;
}

I have another problem!
In horizontalmenu.php I will have:

href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$id_team.'/'.$name.'.html"

where $name=seoUrl($name);
*********************************
But how will display teams.php in index.php?? I use

if (isset($_GET['pagina']) and $_GET['pagina'] == 'teams' and isset($_GET['id_team']) and isset($_GET['name']))
{
         include('./includes/teams.php');
}

but doesn't work because in menuhorizontal i used seoUrl.
I have this message: The requested URL /calcioitalia/teams/2/AC-Milan.php was not found on this server.
How could I solve this problem?

The

PHP Code:

$string 


should be what you're using.. you don't leave it like that. unless you use

PHP Code:

$string 


somewhere.

See what I mean?

[tempz]

PHP Code:

 
preg_replace(' ', '-', $id_team) //whitespaces
preg_replace('%20 ', '-', $id_team) //%20
preg_replace('#\W+#', '-', $id_team) //description below. 


\W is any non-word character, e.g not A-Z, a-z, 0-9, or underscore (lower case \w is the inverse, so watch your typing).

[milanello72]

I used

preg_replace(' ', '-', $name); //whitespaces
preg_replace('%20 ', '-', $name); //%20
preg_replace('#\W+#', '-', $name); //description below. 
       href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$id_team.'/'.$name.'.html"

but my url is calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus F.C. Torino.html
so without '-'

If I use

href="/calcioitalia/'.$page.'/'.$id_team.'/'.seoUrl($name).'.html"

where

function seoUrl($string) {
        //Unwanted:  {UPPERCASE} ; / ? : @ & = + $ , . ! ~ * ' ( )
      //  $string = strtolower($string);
        //Strip any unwanted characters
        $string = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string);
        //Clean multiple dashes or whitespaces
        $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string);
        //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash
        $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string);
        return $string;
}

then I will obtain the link with '-'
calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus-F.C.-Torino.html
but I have the message
"The requested URL /calcioitalia/teams/1/Juventus-FC-Torino.php was not found on this server."

so the problem is that I must to decode $name in index.php.

[milanello72]

I tried to add "AllowEncodedSlashes On" in the .htaccess but it didn't work. Any idea?

[hinch]

return urlencode($string);

[milanello72]

I found at it works!

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9-.\s]+)/?.html$ index.php?page=
$1&id_team=$2&name=$3 [L,QSA]

I put - in ([a-zA-Z0-9-.\s]+)
Thank u for your messages!